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Roel Eykens
How leaders can help home workers stay mentally healthy
Many of us have been working from home in an effort to slow down the coronavirus and ensure business continuity. At the same time, we've been taking care of our family, distracted by news updates, worried about the future, checking our smartphone 100 times a day. And at the end of the day, we've been tired, but not always satisfied. Because hey, did our work make sense today? Was what we did adequate?
Gabriel García Márquez has already showed us how to keep love in times of cholera, but how can leaders help their employees stay mentally healthy and productive in times of corona?
As extraordinary as our situation has been, in essence it's been about motivation. How do you keep your employees motivated in a context that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous?
Science offers the answer. Decades of research in psychology show that you need to fulfill three fundamental psychological needs to achieve autonomous motivation and psychological well-being (Self-Determination Theory; Deci & Ryan, 2000). In other words, you need three elements (the "ABC needs") to create well-being and productivity.
Let's take a closer look at these three elements.
Corporate Sustainable Intrapreneurship (CSI)
In this project, we will develop a training program to support and train employees so that they can contribute to the development of the organization within a sustainability and innovation framework.
Message from the Dean
We are living in very strange times. In the past couple of weeks all of our lives have been turned completely upside down. Up to even a month ago nobody could have ever imagined that our world could change so radically and so swiftly.
The Sharing City
How can we turn Antwerp into a sustainable sharing economy ? Coordinated by Citylab2050, Antwerp Management School investigated the role it can play in stimulating the local sharing economy. Using the move to the new campus De Boogkeers as a unique opportunity, AMS set up three experiments within, and with, the new neighborhood.